After another few hours of work at the Earth Beast Workshop, the Heavenly Condemnation Hunter turned around with a bucket in her arms and spotted someone suspicious tugging at an Earth Beast.
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"Who are you? Please let it go."
She set down the bucket and hurried over, only to find that the suspicious figure looked familiar.
"It's you..."
Yan Huan was clutching the Earth Beast's hind leg. He whipped his head toward her.
"Hm? Someone I know! Is this Earth Beast yours?"
"No, I just happen to work here," the Heavenly Condemnation Hunter replied.
"Why are you attacking it? This isn't an Earth Beast raised for meat."
"I know, but something good was stuck under its foot. I couldn't resist."
Yan Huan lifted the Earth Beast's hind leg and pried a diamond from the sole of its foot.
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The Heavenly Condemnation Hunter stared at the clear stone, puzzled.
"Is this kind of stone... valuable?"
"Of course it is." Yan Huan closed his fist around the diamond, clearly cherishing it.
"Haven't you heard the saying, 'A diamond is forever'?"
"Don't the Xuan Feng people say that?"
"No, I don't think... the Okhma people say that either." The Heavenly Condemnation Hunter glanced at the diamond, unimpressed.
"Stones like that aren't even as good as the hard stone on us Heavenly Condemnation Kin. Most people wouldn't bother picking one up."
"Whether you're forging weapons or building city walls, there are better materials..."
"If you want a valuable metal, you might try looking for gold."
"Of course I know gold is valuable." Yan Huan wiped the little diamond with his sleeve, blew on it, then wiped it some more.
"Fine... I guess diamonds really aren't worth much in Amphoreus. No wonder nobody came to dig this one out."
"What use does a